A Lucky Girl.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 363, 13 March 1902, Page 4

A Lucky Girl.

MISS ROOSEVELT. Miss Alice Roosevelt, who christened the Kaiser’s now yacht Meteor, and who refused the special invitation to the Coronation, is. tall, well built, of athletic physique—thoroughly a modern type of girl, as distinguished from the type ot delicacy, spiritual rather than robust, which used to be so generally admired. Her hair is light and it is dressed hi the prevailing Pompadour mode. She has blue eyes, with bright colour and line teeth. Miss Roosevelt looks more like her mother than like her father. She is independent. in her ways, and given to knowing her own mind, giving it expression freely. Her mother, as is well known, was not tlie present Mrs Theodore Roosevelt, but a Miss Lee, of Boston, of a family of no liltie distinction and of notable ancestry in the modern Athens. When Theodore Roosevelt was left a widower by the death of his first wife there' was some question as to what should be done With the baby daughter, tlie upshot of tile matter being that little Alice.was handed over to mi unmarried sister. This maiden sister, who is now the wife of Commander Cowles, of the navy, kept the child and acted the part of a mother towards her in New York until the father married the present Mrs Roosevelt.

Aline is now in her nineteenth year and is about seven inches over hve feet in height. She has a first cousin, a young girl of about her own age, who is the daughter of Roosevelt Roosevelt. The grandmother of this latter young lady is Mrs Astor, who gave a coming-out party for her the other day, at which Alice made her formal entrance into society. In return this cousin went to Washington to attend the great ball given at the White House in honor of Alice's debut. Mrs Cowles, by the way, wont to England with her cousin Roosevelt Roosevelt when he became Secretary of the United States Legation in London during tho Cleveland administration, and superintended his household there.

. Miss Roosevelt may fairly he called one of the luckiest girls in the world. Hardly had her father become President of the United States when 100,000 dollars in cash were left to her by a total stranger. Tho Boston man who bequeathed the 100,000 dollars to Miss Roosevelt nover saw her. He gave the money on account of his admiration for her father, and lor no other reason.